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Saga pauses SagaEVM after $7M exploit as TVL and token plunge — Assets.beincrypto.com

Saga pauses SagaEVM after $7M exploit as TVL and token plunge

Beincrypto reports that Layer-1 blockchain Saga paused its SagaEVM chain after a smart contract exploit on January 21, 2026 that resulted in nearly $7 million in losses and prompted mass withdrawals. According to the report, attackers exploited a vulnerability in the protocol’s cross-chain messaging to mint Saga Dollar tokens,

Bitcoin reclaims $90,000 as spot ETFs log about $1.6 billion in outflows — Assets.beincrypto.com

Bitcoin reclaims $90,000 as spot ETFs log about $1.6 billion in outflows

Beincrypto reports Bitcoin reclaimed the $90,000 handle even as spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded roughly $1.6 billion in outflows across three trading days. On-chain data show realized losses concentrated among three- to six-month holders, with secondary contributions from the six- to 12-month cohort—participants who largely bought nearer cycle

Researcher: institutions unlikely to push Bitcoin to $150,000 without major catalyst — Images.cointelegraph.com

Researcher: institutions unlikely to push Bitcoin to $150,000 without major catalyst

Macro researcher and FFTT founder Luke Gromen said institutional investors are unlikely to drive Bitcoin from roughly $89,880 to $150,000 this year without a market-moving event, in comments on Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell published to YouTube on Wednesday. Gromen said "that’s not how institutional investors

Saga Pauses SagaEVM Chainlet After $7 Million Exploit — Images.cointelegraph.com

Saga Pauses SagaEVM Chainlet After $7 Million Exploit

Layer-1 blockchain protocol Saga paused its SagaEVM chainlet after a $7 million exploit that saw unauthorized funds bridged out and converted into Ether. The Saga team announced in an X post on Wednesday that it had paused the Ethereum-compatible chain at block height 6,593,800. In a follow-up Medium

XRP Sentiment Falls to Extreme Fear After January Pullback — Assets.beincrypto.com

XRP Sentiment Falls to Extreme Fear After January Pullback

Beincrypto reports that XRP retail sentiment plunged into the "Extreme Fear" zone after a sharp January price correction that pushed the token below $2, about a 19% decline from its January 5, 2026 peak. Santiment’s Positive/Negative Sentiment metric swung from greed to extreme fear in a

Thai SEC readies rules for crypto ETFs, futures and tokenised products — Images.cointelegraph.com

Thai SEC readies rules for crypto ETFs, futures and tokenised products

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing new regulations to support crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs), crypto futures trading and tokenized investment products, the SEC’s deputy secretary-general Jomkwan Kongsakul said, adding the regulator plans to issue formal guidelines supporting the establishment of crypto ETFs “early this year,” the Bangkok

Bitcoin volatility leaves longs and shorts with nearly equal losses — Cdn.sanity.io

Bitcoin volatility leaves longs and shorts with nearly equal losses

Bitcoin's price swung violently within hours, and nearly equal losses across long and short positions showed traders were wrong-footed. The episode amounted to a rare split liquidation in which both long and short positions were hit, with losses roughly balanced across the two sides. It is not clear

Columbia professor says NYSE tokenization plan lacks detail, calls it 'vaporware' — Images.cointelegraph.com

Columbia professor says NYSE tokenization plan lacks detail, calls it 'vaporware'

A Columbia Business School professor has criticised the New York Stock Exchange’s plan to build a blockchain for real-world asset tokenization, saying the announcement lacked detail and read like “vaporware,” in an X post on Tuesday. Omid Malekan said many questions remain unanswered, including which chain the platform would

Bitwise says Q4 2025 may have marked crypto bear-market bottom — Images.cointelegraph.com

Bitwise says Q4 2025 may have marked crypto bear-market bottom

Crypto asset manager Bitwise said in a report shared on Wednesday that the fourth quarter of 2025 potentially marked the end of the crypto bear market, according to Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan. Hougan said Q4 was full of mixed signals, with the market performing poorly despite strong underlying

Trump says he wants crypto bill signed 'very soon' as Congress stalls — Assets.beincrypto.com

Trump says he wants crypto bill signed 'very soon' as Congress stalls

Beincrypto reports President Donald Trump told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday that he hopes to sign crypto market structure legislation “very soon,” but the bill remains gridlocked in Congress. Key friction centers on stablecoin yield provisions: the GENIUS Act allows stablecoin holders to earn rewards, and banking

Bank lobby seeks limits on stablecoin yields and open-banking data sharing — Cdn.sanity.io

Bank lobby seeks limits on stablecoin yields and open-banking data sharing

The American Bankers Association has outlined priorities aimed at limiting how digital dollars earn returns and how financial data is shared as lawmakers debate U.S. crypto market structure legislation. Those priorities target the yield that can be earned on digital dollars and the mechanisms for sharing financial information, forming

Washington's new crypto rulemaking slows, pause likely for weeks — Cdn.sanity.io

Washington's new crypto rulemaking slows, pause likely for weeks

Momentum for new crypto rules in Washington has slowed to a crawl. The slowdown has stalled progress on the rules, and it is not expected to resume for at least several weeks. It is unknown when momentum will pick up again after that period. Key Topics Crypto, Cryptocurrency Regulation, Washington,

XLM drops 11% as shorts dominate while CMF hints at possible accumulation — Assets.beincrypto.com

XLM drops 11% as shorts dominate while CMF hints at possible accumulation

Beincrypto reports Stellar’s XLM crashed 11% after a bearish chart pattern validated, reinforcing short-term downside risks for the altcoin. Derivatives data show market positioning skewed roughly 68% toward short traders, and a dense cluster of long liquidation leverage sits between $0.20 and $0.185, which could trigger forced

US stocks and crypto edge up after Trump halts proposed Greenland tariffs — Images.cointelegraph.com

US stocks and crypto edge up after Trump halts proposed Greenland tariffs

US stocks and major cryptocurrencies edged higher on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he would not move forward with tariffs tied to his efforts to claim Greenland. The S&P 500 closed the trading day up 1.16% after Trump posted on Truth Social that he had

Ether under selling pressure after $480M liquidations as funding turns negative — Images.cointelegraph.com

Ether under selling pressure after $480M liquidations as funding turns negative

Ether (ETH) faced selling pressure this week after $480 million in leveraged positions were liquidated and network fees fell, while the funding rate on ETH perpetual futures briefly turned negative. ETH endured a three-day, 13.8% correction that retested the $2,900 support for the first time in four weeks

Circle awards grant to UN to pilot stablecoins for humanitarian payments — Images.cointelegraph.com

Circle awards grant to UN to pilot stablecoins for humanitarian payments

Stablecoin issuer Circle said it has issued a grant to support the rollout of digital financial infrastructure across the United Nations, aiming to make humanitarian aid payments more efficient, the company announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Circle said the grant — its first international grant from the Circle

Ether falls below $3,000 as whales and institutions buy over $130M — Images.cointelegraph.com

Ether falls below $3,000 as whales and institutions buy over $130M

Ether closed below $3,000 on Tuesday, and onchain data showed whales and institutional investors bought more than $130 million in ETH during the dip. ETH dropped 7.83% to $2,938 on Tuesday, its largest daily correction since November 4, 2025, and Lookonchain reported accumulation by whales and institutions.

Iran central bank purchased over $500M in USDT amid rial crisis — Assets.beincrypto.com

Iran central bank purchased over $500M in USDT amid rial crisis

Beincrypto reports that crypto security firm Elliptic found Iran’s central bank secretly purchased more than $500 million in Tether’s USDT during 2025 as the rial crisis deepened. Elliptic said it identified a network of wallets it attributed to the Central Bank of Iran that accumulated at least $507

Vitalik Buterin to Recommit to Decentralized Social Media in 2026 — Images.cointelegraph.com

Vitalik Buterin to Recommit to Decentralized Social Media in 2026

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he plans to fully recommit to decentralized social media in 2026, according to a Wednesday post on X. Buterin wrote that he has shifted his activity toward decentralized social platforms this year and that every post he has written or read in 2026 has been

ARK Invest sees Bitcoin near $800,000 by 2030 and warns of rising Nvidia competition — Assets.beincrypto.com

ARK Invest sees Bitcoin near $800,000 by 2030 and warns of rising Nvidia competition

Beincrypto reports ARK Invest’s Big Ideas 2026 report predicts the Bitcoin market cap could rise from about $2 trillion to $16 trillion by 2030—implying roughly $800,000 per BTC—and warns that Nvidia may face growing competition in AI hardware. ARK says Bitcoin’s behavior changed meaningfully in

AI-token speculation lifts network active addresses to 18.9 million — Cdn.sanity.io

AI-token speculation lifts network active addresses to 18.9 million

Network activity has risen, driven by speculation around AI tokens, with active addresses increasing from 14.7 million to 18.9 million in a week. The uptick reflects heightened on-chain engagement tied to interest in AI-related tokens, according to the source material. No further details on which networks or specific

Bitcoin falls to $87,500, erasing its 2026 gains — Cdn.sanity.io

Bitcoin falls to $87,500, erasing its 2026 gains

Bitcoin fell back to $87,500, giving up its entire 2026 gain. There was a modest bounce after the president said the U.S. had no intention of taking Greenland by force, but the uplift proved temporary. Prices quickly resumed their decline. Key Topics Crypto, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Price, Greenland, U.

Kevin O'Leary prepares shovel-ready sites for bitcoin miners, backs infrastructure over tokens — Cdn.sanity.io

Kevin O'Leary prepares shovel-ready sites for bitcoin miners, backs infrastructure over tokens

Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary is preparing shovel-ready sites for bitcoin miners and data centers, according to the report. O'Leary is betting that infrastructure — rather than crypto tokens — will drive the next wave of value. The report said he believes most crypto tokens will never come

Maple CEO says private credit is biggest tokenization opportunity — Cdn.sanity.io

Maple CEO says private credit is biggest tokenization opportunity

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell said blockchain’s biggest opportunity is not tokenized Treasury bills or funds but bringing opaque, illiquid private credit markets onchain. Powell contrasted tokenized Treasury bills and funds with private credit, describing private credit as opaque and illiquid and identifying it as the primary use case

Maker activity on Polymarket falls after late-December and early-January peaks — Assets.beincrypto.com

Maker activity on Polymarket falls after late-December and early-January peaks

Beincrypto reports new on-chain analysis showing that high-conviction crypto trading on Polymarket cooled steadily since early January after peaking twice in late December and the first week of the new year. The dataset focused on makers—wallets that actively placed orders and provided liquidity, not casual users or passive viewers.